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LCR’s Recast-Athon – Recasting characters of 2013 Films

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Jack from Lights Camera Reaction recently invited fellow bloggers to participate in ‘Recast-athon’, where we'd recast characters of 2013 that we either hated or liked, but think that the role(s) could have been done better by another actor. The rule is to pick a minimum of three performances and explain the reasons.  So here are …

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Musings on Hollywood Relentless Miscasting

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I read the other day that Tom Hardy was being considered for lead role in the Jack Ryan spinoff Without Remorse, which prompts me to write this piece. Filmmakers and studio executives tend to cast the wrong actor/actress for a certain role many times. Some times it works out well, but other times, not so …

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